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The South Alabama Jaguars mens basketball team returns home to start a two game home stand. The Jags return to ”The Mitch” Thursday January 26th to take on Old Dominion at 7pm.

Old Dominion, 3-5 in their return to the Sun Belt Conference and 11-9 overall, is averaging 68.0 points per game.

The Monarchs are led by Tyreek Scott-Grayson who is averaging 15 points, 5 rebounds, and just shy of 3 assists per game. As a team ODU is shooting 33.3% from 3 point land.

The Monarchs went 1-1 last week with a win over Georgia St 77-58 and a loss to App St 72-58.

The Jags come into the game with a 2-6 in the Sun Belt and 8-12 overall. South is averaging 69.4 points per game.

They are led by Isaiah Moores 17.9 ppg and Kevin Samuels who has 5 double doubles in the past 6 games.

The Jags are shooting 32.2% from 3 point land.

The Jags are 10-12 overall versus Old Dominion. Check out the link for a historical list of game results between these teams.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/play-index/matchup_finder.cgi?request=1&year_min=1950&year_max=2023&school_id=south-alabama&opp_id=old-dominion&comp_school=le&rank_school=ANY&comp_opp=le&rank_opp=ANY&game_type=A&game_month=&game_location=&game_result=&is_overtime=&order_by=date_game#stats

The Jags are currently 13th in the league standings. If the Jags are going to make a run, it needs to start with this game. There are only eleven games left. Ten of those remaining games are conference games.

In what turned out to be a very streaky game, the Jags lose another Sun Belt Conference game 85-81 in OT on the road at CCU.

South Alabama came out cold again. The Jags didn’t score their first points until nearly four minutes into the game. Coastal Carolina built an early 17-4 lead with about 12 minutes left in the first half. The Jags would however get it together and go on a 12-2 run over the next 1:54 cutting the lead to three points at 19-16.

Coastal then would immediately go on another run of 16-4 to increase their lead to 37-22. South would trail at halftime 41-28.

The Jags would come out of halftime and go on another run, cutting the lead down to three trailing 35-32. Coastal would get the lead back up to 14 at the 10:14 mark of the 2nd half. South would trail 58-44.

South Alabama would chip away the rest of the 2nd half tying the game at 68 on a 3 pointer by Tyrell “ Turbo” Jones with just :48 seconds left. Neither team would score again and the game went to overtime.

In OT the Jags would take their first lead of the game at the 4:49 mark, on another three pointer from Turbo. The score was 71-68.

The two teams would go back and forth for the next few minutes until Coastal hit a 3 pointer and the Jags would trail by 4 the score 78-74 with 2:27 left in OT. The Jags would get the deficit down to one at the 2:01 mark, on a three pointer by Isaiah Moore. That’s is as close as the Jags would get. Final 85-81.

The leading scorers for the Jags were…

Turbo Jones- 25 points including 6-13 from the 3 point line.

Isaiah Moore- 19 points including 3-5 from 3 point land.

Kevin Samuel- 12 points 2 rebounds for another double double.

Jamar Franklin- 8 points making his second straight start of the year.

The Jags shot 3 pointers at 40% and overall 46% from the field. The Jags record falls to 8-12 overall and 2-6 in the Sunbelt Conference. The next 2 games for South Alabama will be home games. Thursday January 26, 2023 Old Dominion comes to “The Mitch”, game time 7 pm. Troy comes to town Saturday at 3pm.